Posts Tagged ‘Mac’

Yeah, not much mention, if any, of Mac at WWDC this week, but it’s hardly the beginning of the end for iMacs and MacBook Pros. The iPad is hardly the preferred platform for developing apps or useful work with Final Cut Pro or Aperture, for example.
Bah, Lyons is reaching here.

I’ve been playing around with the iPhone SDK for a few months now. They’re cool devices and developing iPhone/iPod touch apps is a lot of fun.
But, I’m not so enamored with the platform that I’ll likely continue developing for it anymore. Apple tightly controls development on the devices, and that closed of a system is [...]

That’s Microsoft playing damage control after one of their employees, Simon Aldous, commented:
What we’ve tried to do with Windows 7 – whether it’s traditional format or in a touch format – is create a Mac look and feel in terms of graphics.
Oops. Hope your C.V. is up-to-date, Simon.

A friendly reminder that a new year is coming up and if you haven’t learned a new language yet, now’s the time to do it.

The Guardian has a brilliant article on Microsoft’s user-led launch parties for Windows 7, coming to your neighborhood’s Windows fan’s home in late October. Here’s a link to the YouTube video in question, too amazing (or nauseating) to miss.
But, his take on Mac enthusiasts is funnier than hell and Mac fanboy that I am, I [...]

An article comparing the two new operating systems. The $29 upgrade to Snow Leopard is mighty, mighty tempting, but I’m holding back because 1) Parallels 4.0 might or might not be fully compatible with the latest Mac OS X and I need Windows to VPN into the office and 2) my Dell laptop running XP [...]

It’s not spectacular, but everyone must start somewhere.

Black Bear Pass (Colorado) — Warn winch advertisement, ca. 1975

I had Mac’s LCD replaced this week to resolve the 1-pixel wide aberration that popped up a few months ago. Did you know Apple Part Number 661-4184, a 24″ LCD assembly with inverter board and gasket, runs around $928.13?
I didn’t.
Shocking as it was, it didn’t cost me a dime because I bought the AppleCare Protection [...]

The ThinkPad received an OS upgrade this weekend. Not to Windows Vista, but to a brand new installation of Ubuntu instead. XP, while quite nice and serviceable, was simply running too slow, even after a fresh install back in October, and I really didn’t feel like re-installing again or worse, upgrading to Vista.
It was a [...]

Because it hasn’t crashed since I upgraded to Parallels 4.0 in November. Very nice.
However, I now have a green, 1-pixel wide, vertical line running up the right side of the LCD that appeared out of nowhere one day. That I can actually live with; the random reboots, I cannot.
Still, I have a 3-year warranty on [...]

It’s Parallels again.
I had just launched Visual C# when Mac froze for a moment, Parallels crashed, and the screen wiped gray with this lovely dialog box in the center:

Upon restart, Mac mocked me further:

As if I needed to be reminded.
Parallels is useful, but it sure blows sometimes.

I just finished reading Stephen Kochan’s Programming In Objective-C. Since I’ve been wanting to do some Mac and iPhone development, I figured this was a good place to start.
Overall, I thought it was a good effort, but certainly not the best. On the negative side, I found a surprisingly large number of grammatical and spelling [...]

Mac has been running great since I had the hard drive replaced a few months ago. No more lengthy pinwheel spinning and not a single flashing question mark folder in all those days.
However, Mac did perform a random reboot tonight, which when it happens is a bit startling. Thinking back, I believe it’s done it [...]

I’m about 50% complete with the Java implementation of Leafpile but have decided to put development on the back-burner while I focus on learning to write Mac applications. In fact, why not simply port what I have now over to a Cocoa application. Mac is back in service again, and I’ve really been itching to [...]

Arrg. My upgrade to Leopard didn’t go well last night.
I commented back in January about my Mac issues, and they reared their ugly head again. I’ve continued to have problems restarting my Mac, half of the time it can’t find the hard drive and I get the Question Mark folder. I know I’m in the [...]

Does the future lie in application development for the Mac?
The current issue of BusinessWeek has an article on the growing demand of Macs in the office. Sales are up an astonishing 51% over last year and more and more employees are requesting them.
With the growing popularity of the iPod, iPhone, web apps and VM software [...]

I love my Mac, but I do have issues with it from time to time.
A few times a week, it’ll hang on the spinning pinwheel for minutes at a time. Could be a caching problem or having a hard time accessing the hard drive? It’ll recover, but it sure is annoying.
On other occasions, if I [...]

I’m doing some text classification stuff related to spam and needed to install MySQL (5.0.41) on my iMac running Tiger (10.4.9). However, when attempting to create a table with MySQL Administrator I get the following error:

An example showing MySQL error 1064
For the life of me, I have no idea why it’s giving me this error, [...]

What killed them? Google, Ajax, broadband, and OS X, in Paul Graham’s eyes at least.
And, I totally agree with him. Looking at his list, I’m already quite entrenched with 3 of the 4 items, and if it weren’t for my PC at the office, I’d have dumped Microsoft long ago, since everything I do now [...]